AMD Publishes A Blockchain Page Promoting Cryptocurrency Mining Rigs

Within the AMD website we find a page dedicated to blockchain technology where cryptocurrency mining rigs based on their graphs stand out.

Lies have very short legs. During the umpteenth cryptocurrency mining fever, the world's two biggest GPU makers NVIDIA and AMD saw their products fly by generating brutal revenue. The two brands have defended that their solutions are designed for gaming users and not for cryptocurrency mining. If we knew that this was total hypocrisy, it is very evident in the case of AMD and its page dedicated to blockchain technology.

AMD has a page on blockchain technology on its website.

On this page, we find a definition of blockchain that is more or less accurate in some aspects, and it highlights some of its potential uses, such as medicine, the Internet of Things, real estate, governance, energy, cryptocurrencies, and others. What stands out most is the section that discusses how good their products are for blockchain technology; specifically, it states: “AMD: a leading technology combination for blockchain.”

“The blockchain algorithms require computer platforms, PCs and servers, more specifically CPU and GPU to run. AMD is in a unique position to offer the best combination of CPU and GPU technologies to make blockchain transactions faster and more secure. "

This paragraph is gold for the amount of nonsense that is said. Few coins are mined with a processor, since it is not usually profitable, but a lot is mined with GPUs, but right now it is mined especially with NVIDIA Pascals, due to their good performance and energy efficiency. The AMD Polaris are hardly used and the RX Vega have not been used at any time because they are expensive and consume what is not in the writing.

The most serious skidding is that processors and graphics increase the speed of blockchain transactions. That is completely wrong. Transactions have a validation time regardless of the GPU or CPU architecture that is used, here we talk about scalability of transactions or transactions per second, this is a complex issue, but it is not solved with powerful processors or graphics, technologies are required specific that are in development. It should be noted that security is provided by cryptography and algorithms, not the hardware used.

But the best thing is that they announce specific solutions for cryptocurrency mining based on AMD graphics. We see the Sapphire Inca that accommodates 14 RX 470 graphics (they can be perfectly 14 RX 580), the ASRock Superb for 8 graphics, which indicates that it supports RX 570 or RX 470 graphics, although it also supports RX 580 and claims to have an AMD socket. AM4 (AMD Ryzen).

The following are the ASUS I rack for 8 RX 470 graphics and the MSI Blockchain Rig F12 for 12 RX 470 graphics. We continue with the Biostar A578X8D for 8 RX 570 graphics cards, the TUL Power Hash A8 + for 8 RX 570 graphics cards and finally the Raijintek for 10 Radeon graphics cards, in general.

Everyone to draw their conclusions, but come on, they have given little footing when it comes to blockchain technology and how cryptocurrency mining works. What is relevant is that they 'sell' rigs for their graphics cards, making it clear that gaming may not be as a priority for the company as they want to make it seem.